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APNU HAS TO COME BETTER

Mar 19, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on APNU HAS TO COME BETTER

APNU’s new found love is the sugar workers. It is now saying that it will not close the sugar industry down but that it is interested in turning around the sugar industry. During the 2011 elections...

Man confesses to killing paramour

Mar 19, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Man confesses to killing paramour

Police in “G” Division may soon institute charges against 22-year-old Anthony Joseph, the man who was at the time living with 26-year-old Quineza Patricia Benn, whose body was discovered Tuesday....

Pupils’ relocation fails to find favour with parents

Mar 19, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Pupils’ relocation fails to find favour with parents

Parents of pupils attending Christianburg Primary School are up in arms against the decision by the Region Ten Education Department to relocate some of the pupils to St Aidan’s Primary. The parents...

GECOM commences distribution of National Identification Cards

Mar 19, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM commences distribution of National Identification Cards

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has started the distribution of National Identification Cards for persons registered during the recent Claims and Objections exercise .The Commission yesterday...

Mustapha to file more charges against Ramayya

Mar 19, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Mustapha to file more charges against Ramayya

Executive Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), Zulfikar Mustapha, will be heading to the High Court this week to file Contempt of Court Charges against AFC Executive Member,...

IMF official examines drop in oil price on PetroCaribe and the Caribbean

Mar 19, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on IMF official examines drop in oil price on PetroCaribe and the Caribbean

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) – A senior official of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) says the impact of the drop in oil prices globally will affect member countries of the PetroCaribe grouping...

CARICOM, UNFPA plan to curb Caribbean teenage pregnancy by 2020

Mar 19, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on CARICOM, UNFPA plan to curb Caribbean teenage pregnancy by 2020

In effort to reduce at least by 20 per cent, adolescent pregnancy in CARICOM Member States, the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD), in collaboration with the CARICOM Secretariat, has...

GECOM is not short of polling day staff – PRO

Mar 19, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM is not short of polling day staff – PRO

Amid statements of concern expressed by one political party over the competence and complement of elections day staff, the local electoral body has categorically stated that to date, its reservoir of...

Police issue bulletin for Golden Grove murder suspect

Mar 19, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Police issue bulletin for Golden Grove murder suspect

Police have issued a wanted bulletin for the suspect in the killing of Nabaclis resident Dwayne Kennedy called “Jigga”. Police are interested in questioning Kennedy’s neighbour Rolston Morrison...

US Embassy’s ‘International Woman of Courage’ Award goes to the late Dr. Faith Harding

Mar 19, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on US Embassy’s ‘International Woman of Courage’ Award goes to the late Dr. Faith Harding

…remembered for social services, and family life The local United States Embassy during its customary celebration of International Women’s Day has recognised the late Dr. Faith Harding as...

Slain woman’s grandmother seeks help for burial

Mar 19, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Slain woman’s grandmother seeks help for burial

Mary Benn, the grandmother of the young Charity mother, whose body was discovered in a clump of bushes on Tuesday morning by residents says she would be very grateful for some financial assistance...

Food and Drug Department to investigate macaroni and cheese

Mar 19, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Food and Drug Department to investigate macaroni and cheese

…As Kraft recalls 6.5 million boxes worldwide The Guyana Food and Drug Department will be launching investigations with a local company following the recall of 6.5 million boxes of original flavour...

Int’l observers expected as early as Nomination Day – Luncheon

Mar 19, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Int’l observers expected as early as Nomination Day – Luncheon

Government has dispatched letters inviting several countries and internationally recognised groups to officially observe the upcoming General and Regional Elections on May 11. Head of the...

Christopher Ram, Supriya Singh and Clinton who?

Mar 19, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Christopher Ram, Supriya Singh and Clinton who?

Christopher Ram is a find for the coalition. He is now in the leadership of the Working People’s Alliance which automatically puts him in the leadership APNU. Mr. Ram will make a good speaker on...

Police Association celebrates 64 years

Mar 19, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Police Association celebrates 64 years

The Police Association, which represents the junior ranks of the Guyana Police Force, is celebrating its 64th year of existence with several community-based activities. One such activity was a...

Man freed for 2004 and 2009 sex with nine years old

Mar 19, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Man freed for 2004 and 2009 sex with nine years old

Virtual complainant declines to offer evidence Jagdeo Deodat, 45, a fisherman who on two occasions back in 2004 and 2009, engaged in sex with a minor, a close relative, walked out of the Berbice...

Teen allegedly steals from employer

Mar 19, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Teen allegedly steals from employer

A teenager appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry, yesterday, after it was alleged she stole a quantity of items from her employer. Ariana Lalloo, 18, of Carifesta Avenue, denied...

Mash Day murder trial…Victim was stabbed multiple times

Mar 19, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Mash Day murder trial…Victim was stabbed multiple times

– Gov’t Pathologist testifies The final witness is expected to take the stand today in the murder trial of the duo implicated in the mob killing of Enterprise, East Coast Demerara businessman,...

Cummings Lodge father fined on ‘con’ charge

Mar 19, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Cummings Lodge father fined on ‘con’ charge

A Cummings Lodge father of two appeared in court yesterday to answer to a fraud charge. Marvin Morgan, 26, of 898 Second Street Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara (ECD) accepted that on February 26,...

Lethem man before court on wounding charge

Mar 19, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Lethem man before court on wounding charge

Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry ordered a Lethem man to post $100,000 bail, when he made an appearance at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts yesterday. The court alleged that on January...

Rum thief jailed for six months

Mar 19, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Rum thief jailed for six months

A man who decided to blame his thieving ways on alcohol was given a six months jail sentence, when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts yesterday. Chief Magistrate Priya...

Felony accused out on bail

Mar 19, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Felony accused out on bail

Frank Thomas, of Ann’s Grove East Coast Demerara (ECD) was placed on $50,000 bail after it was alleged he attempted to commit a felony. Particulars of the charge stated that on March 14, at Arangoy...

Clearly, the rot in the PPP started while the Jagans were still alive

Mar 19, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Clearly, the rot in the PPP started while the Jagans were still alive

DEAR EDITOR, There has been quite a stir in Guyana since President Bharrat Jagdeo, in defending his sumptuous lifestyle, suggested that the party’s founder leaders and heroes Cheddi and Janet Jagan...

Cold Cases and the Hard Facts – Rhetorical Echoes of the Past

Mar 19, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Cold Cases and the Hard Facts – Rhetorical Echoes of the Past

DEAR EDITOR, Yesterday, Wednesday March 18, 2015, as the body of political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing was lowered into the ground, with it went the symbolism of how far we as a nation have sunk,...

Chalk to Cheese

Mar 19, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Chalk to Cheese

Dear Editor, FORMER President, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo should stick to the old adage: If you don’t have anything good to say SHUT UP! Whether well intended as justification for the new dispensation of...

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The business class also funds undemocratic parties

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- There’s a peculiar phenomenon in Guyana, a sort of cyclical ritual, where members of... more